What in the tea partying hell do you suppose is going on at Pitt? Disgruntled adjuncts? Some dumbass student who figures escaping prosecution for this mess will be easier than sitting through Rocks for Jocks until finals?
Or just someone who wants to get an eyeful in the washroom?
My high school did this in order to thwart smoking, which they'd heard was going on in bathroom stalls. After a lot of complaints, they replaced the doors in the female bathrooms only, but not the males'.
Being a male, I did my best to "hold it" until I got home. Only once did I have to sit and use a toilet in a door-less stall during high school, and it was not an experience I'd like to repeat.
My high school did this shit, too. It's both humiliating and entirely ineffective. I couldn't believe people would do this in high school. I'm more baffled than Hiram that someone would try it on a college campus.
"So far, no devices have been found, but many students are frustrated and tired of the inconveniences.
'I’ve definitely considered – I’ve talked to my mom – I know she told me if it keeps up she might want me to come home,' Ethan Boyle said."
Maybe it's just bad writing, but this puzzles me a bit. If the bomb threats are, in fact, mostly an "inconvenience" (having spent a good many winter mornings freshman year shivering outside in my nightgown after steam from the showers set off our dorm's oversensitive smoke alarms, I can sympathize, but only to a degree), then why would Ethan, or his mom, consider his going home?
If, on the other hand, there's a possibility of real danger -- as Burnt Chrome's report of people being "on edge" suggests -- that plan might make more sense.
One of my friends from undergrad is a proffie here. They are on edge.
ReplyDeleteMy high school did this in order to thwart smoking, which they'd heard was going on in bathroom stalls. After a lot of complaints, they replaced the doors in the female bathrooms only, but not the males'.
ReplyDeleteBeing a male, I did my best to "hold it" until I got home. Only once did I have to sit and use a toilet in a door-less stall during high school, and it was not an experience I'd like to repeat.
My high school did this shit, too. It's both humiliating and entirely ineffective. I couldn't believe people would do this in high school. I'm more baffled than Hiram that someone would try it on a college campus.
Delete"So far, no devices have been found, but many students are frustrated and tired of the inconveniences.
ReplyDelete'I’ve definitely considered – I’ve talked to my mom – I know she told me if it keeps up she might want me to come home,' Ethan Boyle said."
Maybe it's just bad writing, but this puzzles me a bit. If the bomb threats are, in fact, mostly an "inconvenience" (having spent a good many winter mornings freshman year shivering outside in my nightgown after steam from the showers set off our dorm's oversensitive smoke alarms, I can sympathize, but only to a degree), then why would Ethan, or his mom, consider his going home?
If, on the other hand, there's a possibility of real danger -- as Burnt Chrome's report of people being "on edge" suggests -- that plan might make more sense.